Toxic

Toxic is a Tox-based CLI (Command Line Interface) client with an ncurses interface, written in C. Initially written by Plutooo, development is currently lead by Jfreegman. All Unix-like operating systems are currently supported (e.g. Linux, OSX, FreeBSD).

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History

Toxic was originally created by Plutooo in the experimental branch of ProjectTox on July 29, 2013. Following Plutooo's disappearance soon after his initial commit, Jfreegman took over leadership and continued Toxic's development. Although extremely buggy and lacking in basic features in its initial state, rapid development by the Tox community made it the first 'usable' Tox client, and it soon deprecated nTox as the reference CLI client. Toxic was initially part of the toxcore repository, but was moved to its own github repository as a stand-alone project on August 23, 2013.

Install

Package installation (recommended)

To install Toxic via the official Tox repository, follow these instructions, then install it as you would any other package (for example, on debian based systems: apt-get install toxic). deb and rpm packages can be directly downloaded from here.

Building from Source (advanced)

To build Toxic from source, installation instructions and library dependencies can be found in Toxic's Readme.

Binaries (not recommended)

A binary download of the latest version can be found here, however the binary build is not recommended as it currently does not take command-line arguments.

FreeBSD

Binary

Use pkg utility to install binary package:

pkg install toxic

Compiling

Update ports tree:

portsnap fetch update

Compile and install client with all dependencies:

cd /usr/ports/net-im/toxic
make install clean

Usage

Once toxic is compiled and/or installed, Toxic can be run via the commandline with the command `toxic`. For a list of options run `toxic --help`. For detailed usage instructions, see the manpage with `man toxic`. For details on the user configuration file, run `man toxic.conf` or see the example config file.

Features

1-on-1 chats

1-on-1 file transfers

1-on-1 audio calls

Group chats

Audio and native desktop notifications (may be disabled with build options or in settings)

Chat logging (disabled by default)

Pseudo-offline messaging

SOCKS5 Proxy support (Disable UDP with the --force-tcp option to prevent IP leakage)